The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 11
She wore a pointed cap of quilted red satin turned up with ermine, her hair streamed loose over her shoulders, and she walked with a staff.
Who acts: woman, pointed cap · What happens: wear, quilt, turn up, stream, walk · To what, where: hair, shoulders
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, pointed cap), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wore | nsubj |
| 2 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cap | det |
| 4 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cap | amod |
| 5 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 satin | case |
| 7 | quilted | quilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 satin | amod |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 satin | amod |
| 9 | satin | satin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cap | nmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ermine | case |
| 13 | ermine | ermine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hair | punct |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hair | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ermine | appos |
| 17 | streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hair | acl |
| 18 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 17 streamed | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 shoulders | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 streamed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 walked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 walked | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 walked | nsubj |
| 25 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wore | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 staff | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 staff | det |
| 28 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 walked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | woman | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | quilt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | turn up | past | a pointed cap of quilted red satin | with ermine | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stream | participle | woman's hair not said here | woman's shoulders | loose property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over shoulder=Location | |||
| 5 | walk | past | woman | with a staff | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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